Post-it #215

We got a new kitty. The kids voted on a name so we call her Daisy.  She's a super friendly cat who puts up a lot with children. She's an outside cat since some of us are allergic. Lydia has been added to that list. Even with the cat outside, I still sneeze all day, have gone through boxes of tissues, and have had to pull out the inhaler,  since the kids go play with her and bring their furry selves back inside. Of well.

Post-it #214

Allison had her first pedicure. Matching toes.

136th Passage

David and I like to play frisbee golf. We've gone to the a park in Nampa many a time this year to play the course there. We often go with my brother and his wife. It's fun and recreational! Here are some pics from one of our frisbee golfing dates.

 Ignore my finger in the pictures....

 You should zoom in on this one to see David's face. Hilarious. 

 Also hilarious is this picture.

 Allison always gets to go for a nice ride when we play. 

135th Passage

I'm two months behind on blogging. These past two months we have done a ton of fun stuff with lots of pictures and stories. I'll never catch up...

Independence Day. David had the day off work, so we kind of relaxed in the morning. I had the kids wear patriotically colored clothes, except Lydia, who didn't have any. But I made her hair into a star, so that has to count.

 After lunch we headed to Memorial Park where the city was putting on some fun things.
We got to pet a camel.

 Owen had to be uh, forcefully encouraged, to touch the camel. 

 William and Lydia had the most fun with it, and even pet the head and neck. Morgan touched it a little bit, but I missed getting that picture.

We watched a little puppet show for awhile, then headed to the fire hose. All the kids, (except Owen, who refused to have anything to do with the water) had a blast.

We met up with David's parents while at the fire hose. After awhile, we headed to a little museum place where they have old buildings, trains, and equipment.

We got a free icecream, then parted ways, after another picture or two.

After the park, we headed to my brother Chris's house. They recently acquired an above ground swimming pool, so we played in that a lot. Allison was so weird! She just buried her face in my shoulder while I held her and acted like she was sleeping. Occasionally she would look up, and if she saw David she would start crying! It was so weird! I don't think she liked seeing him with wet hair and without a shirt or something. After awhile though, she warmed up enough to hang out in the baby floaty and look like she was born to relax at the pool.

We were joined their by most of the family, and enjoyed a yummy dutch oven meal. 

Before we took off all the kids got to do sparklers.

We left their house and met David's parents again in our neighborhood to watch the Caldwell city fireworks. They launched them from a park that't really close, so we just sat at the outskirts of the neighborhood. It was a good show!

134th Passage

The baseball post. I've been dreading this one because it will take so much time, especially with getting video's to a point that they can be uploaded onto blogger from an apple device.

Morgan and William got to play machine pitch baseball this year, and Owen did tball. We never started the older boys before this year, so they still needed to learn the basics. Let me tell you, those two couldn't throw or catch to save their lives. Batting wasn't any better. But by the end of the year William was catching almost all the throws given him, they were both throwing WAY better than when they started, and the last game Morgan hit the ball both times he was up to bat. He even got to run home, which was a first for him. I really enjoyed watching their games. Their team was the best of all the teams and they only lost one game.

William is number 5 and Morgan is number 6.

Their team did a fun thing where after every game one of the players got a game ball signed by all of the other players. If they had an especially good game, they got the ball. Morgan got it after he had his first hit during a game, and William got it I think for getting a couple hits one game.

Here are clips of some of their hits.

This last one is of Morgan running home. William never got to run home because someone usually got the third out while he was on base.

The team had a pizza party and award ceremony. The coaches said William was most improved.

I can't really remember what was said of Morgan! It was mentioned though that he finished out strong with 2 for 2 hits in his last game.

Now on to Owen. He was in t-ball, and Owen is naturally pretty athletic. He started the year throwing better than Morgan and William. He's got a good arm. But he's also really spacey and cared more about playing in the dirt than he did about playing baseball. He liked hitting the ball off the tee, and hit it really well, but after that, he just messed around. Sometimes he would walk the base instead of run to protest the fact that he didn't like how his helmet fit. He was also known to play keep-away with the ball from his own teammates when the game was in play. Oy vey, child. Hopefully next year he will try harder. If he does he could be a fantastic addition to his team. 

Here's the video of Owen getting a nice hit, and then walking home.

He had a pizza party and an award ceremony too. 

It was an extremely busy June with a game and/or practice every weeknight. We were happy it was over, but it will be fun to do again next year.